Lawton, Oklahoma, USA. Griffin, who stands 6 feet 10 inches tall and weighs over 350 lbs, certainly lives up to his moniker. He played guitar from an early age but was only converted to the blues as a teenager when he heard the music of artists such as Mike Bloomfield, Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed on national radio. After finishing college he began performing on the local blu
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20 March 1935, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The drummer Fred Below put the backbeat into the blues and elevated the records of Muddy Waters and Little Walter, among a host of others, into defining statements. Close behind him is Sam Lay, the inventor of the double shuffle. Lay began playing drums at 14 and joined his first band, the Moon Dog Combo, in 1956. The foll
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27 September 1941, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Saxophonist Nix was one of several aspiring high-school musicians forming the basis of the Mar-Keys. This renowned instrumental group enjoyed several R&B-styled bestsellers and became the house band for the Stax Records company during the mid-60s, performing on sessions for Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Wilson Pickett and Sam And
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